In a major achievement by the latehar Police on Friday evening as many as eight members of Jharkhand Jan Mukti Parishad (JJMP) were nabbed from Nevari village under latehar police station area. A huge cache of arms and ammunitions were also recovered in the raid conducted by the police.
Based on intelligence input latehar police formed small teams to ambush the members of the outfit from Nevari village. The operation started on Friday afternoon and lasted for few hours leading to the arrest of eight extremists of the group. The arrested extremists are- Mohan Parhiya, Guddu Yadav, Babulal Yadav, Amit Oraon, Alok Tirkey, Ranjeet Kherwar, Rajesh Chero and Shivraj Singh. The JJMP is said to be involved mostly in extortion activities.
"They had no plans of sabotage. They collect levies and were targeting developmental activities," said latehar SP Michael Raj S. Significantly, police recovered one INSAS rifle and 124 live cartridges, two 303 police rifle and 158 live cartridges, two 315 regular rifle and 15 live cartridges, one 303 country made rifle, one country made hand grenade, 14 magazines, chargers, belt, dresses and sharp weapons.
According to police, members of the group had opened fire on a passenger vehicle on Thursday night mistaking it to be police's vehicle. The incident had left four villagers injured. The group rarely targets police, pointed out the SP. "They have never targeted police personnel," maintained the latehar Superintendent of Police.